Artificial analogues of natural‐language phonological patterns can often be learned in the
lab from small amounts of training or exposure. The difficulty of a featurally‐defined pattern …

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of
substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A …

Human language draws on a complex set of cognitive, motor and auditory skills. Some of
these are found in other species but others are thought to be absent. There has been a burst …

Phonological constraints can, in principle, be classified according to whether they are
natural (founded in principles of universal grammar (UG)) or unnatural (arbitrary, learned …

Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology:
channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic bias, cognitive …

This dissertation identifies a strong computational property of phonological and
morphological processes with local triggers. It is shown that the input-output mapping that …

We investigate whether the patterns of phonotactic well-formedness internalized by
language learners are direct reflections of the phonological patterns they encounter, or …

Phonological patterns often have phonetic bases. But whether phonetic substance should
be encoded in synchronic phonological grammar is controversial. We aim to test the …

We investigated whether adult learners' knowledge of phonotactic restrictions on word forms
from their first language impacts their ability to use statistical information to segment words in …

Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a
systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical …